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Message: [QUOTE="jekelish, post: 884811, member: 82"] Seriously, can we stop pretending this is baseball? Of course based on the stats you should win more games if Miguel Cabrera is in the lineup, because baseball is entirely about individual matchups and the team aspect doesn't factor in. Basketball is not the same thing. Again, you cannot quantify the things that happen away from the ball that help the team win or cause them to lose. Therefore this is entirely moot. As [USER=362]ImperialOrange[/USER] pointed out when he talked about the first half in his post about rewatching it, Cooney ran UNC defenders, mostly Paige, ragged. So while he wasn't hitting, the benefits of the way he was moving away from the ball was not showing up in the stat sheets. He wore out Paige, who in turn had a crappy game. Cooney doesn't get any credit for that sort of thing in the box score, and therefore it doesn't factor into this nonsense "stat" that tells you who should win and when. [/QUOTE]